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Cold War Documentaries - "Atomic City: USA"
by Various
Available on: Digital Download
Fears of a cold war turning hot were rampant from the late 1940’s to the 1980’s and no fear was greater than the fear of a nuclear war and whether or not we were prepared for one.
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Napoleon: Man of the World
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Available on: Digital Download
Part of a larger series of essays in which Emerson examined various historical figures, "Napoleon: Man of the World" is an invaluable study of one of history's great leaders.
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World War II Audio: 1941-1944
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Available on: Online Audio
Listen to audio selections from World War II with speeches and newscasts given by world leaders.
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Unmasking Stalin
by Robert Rand
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Winston Churchill said that Russia is a riddle, wrapped inside a mystery, inside an enigma.
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
Available on: Digital Download
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in the 5th Century BC.
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American RadioWorks presents Korea: The Unfinished War
by Stephen Smith
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended more than fifty years ago...
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The War
Available on: Video Download
A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
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Technology and the Future Warrior
by Steve Altes
Available on: Online Video
The Super Soldier has one foot out of the lab, and will be reporting for battle by 2020. “Dutch” DeGay’s Army researchers have begun to “rebuild the soldier from the skin out.”
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Available on: Digital Download
“The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu.
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D-Day Pre-invasion Address to Soldiers
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Available on: Digital Download
"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months."
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World War II Audio: 1938-December 6, 1941
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Available on: Online Audio
Listen to audio selections from World War II with speeches and newscasts given by world leaders.
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Cold War Documentaries - Cross Section: USA
by Various
Available on: Digital Download
With compulsory induction into Military service during World War 2 a thing of the past, the new threats to security and the Cold War atmosphere with the Soviet Union caused many to reconsider reinstating the draft.
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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges discusses how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls 'the myth of war' -- the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious.
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News and Speeches: 1946-1949
by Winston Churchill
Available on: Online Audio
Listen to audio selections from 1946-1949 with speeches and newscasts given by world leaders.
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Terrorism
by Victor Davis Hanson
Available on: Online Audio
Victor Davis Hanson received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University and is Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno.
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Conflicts in Liberalism and Security Issues
by James Kurth
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Vietnam Remembered
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video
In this bitter commemoration of the end of the Vietnam War, the speakers dispel any comforting notion that Americans have absorbed lessons from that bloody time, much less sought the truth
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American RadioWorks presents The Few Who Stayed - Defying Genocide in Rwanda
by Michael Mongomery
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people....
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In Depth: John Keegan
by John Keegan
Available on: Online Video
Author John Keegan joins Book TV for In Depth, airing live November 2 from noon to 3pm ET, and reairing at 5pm and midnight the same day.
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National Address Announcing Air Strikes on Iraq
by Bill Clinton
Available on: Digital Download
"Earlier today, I ordered America's Armed Forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq."
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Veterans Day Ceremony Address at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
by Ronald Reagan
Available on: Digital Download
"This memorial has become a monument to that living love."
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America Attacked
by CBS
Available on: Online Audio
The AHC will attempt to recreate, as much as possible, the radio news events of December 7-8, 1941.
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Vietnam and the Presidency
by David Halberstam
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
The Viet Nam War was the longest and most controversial war that the United States ever fought.
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The International Initiative
by Chip Blacker
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
The end of the Cold War brought a period of great optimism about the future of societies around the world.
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A Tribute to David Halberstam: Live From B&N
by David Halberstam
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Watch the webcast from our Union Square store in New York City as Robert A. Caro, Joan Didion, and more literary luminaries gather to pay tribute to their esteemed colleague, the late David Halberstam, author of The Coldest Winter.
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